Picture device



Feb. 16 1926. 1,573,344

1. G. JORDAN PICTURE DEVICE Filed March 30, 1923 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 Feb. 16

L. G. JORDAN PICTURE DEVICE Filed March 30, 1925 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 v v FIIIIILIII ll 1...! LI:

Feb. 16 1926. 1,573,344

L. G. JORDAN PICTURE DEVICE F" d M h 30, 192." 4 Sheets-Sheet 5 (F (2 11.6 are D 4 Feb. 16 W26.

L. (3. JORDAN PICTURE DEVICE 1925 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Filed March 30,

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tll tl 'l illji LOUIS G. JORDAN, F ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON.

PICTURE DEVICE.

Application filed March 30,,192

' a plurality of slides interengaged and held in a novel way for reciprocation, novel means being provided for reciprocating the slides in properly timed relation to each other.

. It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

lVit-h the above and other objects in View,

which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arran ement of parts and in the details of construction"hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, with- A in the scope of what is claimed, changes in 7 lower ed e of each the precise embodiment of the invention depicted and described, may be made Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in front elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention; Figure 2 is a rear elevation; Figures 3, 4; and 5 are sections taken, respectively, on the lines 38, t-l and 5-5 of Figure 2; Figure 6 is a diagrammatic plan showing the slides and the display tongues carried thereby, parts being broken away.

The numeral 1 marks a frame of any do sired construction, havingan opening 2. l-lorizontally spaced downwardly and rearwardly inclined panels extend across the opening 9 and are carried by the frame 1. A picture st appears on the panels The t; panel 3 extends downwardly behind the upper edge of the panel nest therebenealh, as shown most clearly at 5 in Figure ,Vcrtical bars 6 are connected at their upper and lower ends to the upper and lower portions of the frame 1 and extend across Serial No. 628,393.

beneath lle retainer 7, and are united by a trans'r connection 9. The parts 9 and 8 may be di nominated a first slide. Strips 1O reciprocate in contact with the inner edges of the strips 8 and beneath the connection 9 and the retainer 7. The strips 10 are united by a transverse connection 11. The parts 10 and ll may he called a second slide. A third shdc 12 is provided. the same being in the foru'i of a plate mounted to reciprocate between the parts 10 of the second slide, and beneath the retainer 7, the connection 11 of the second slide and the connection 9 of the first slide. The lower ends of retractile springs 14 are connected to the lower portion of the frame 1, one spring being connected at its upper end to the member 11 of the second slide, another spring being connected at its upper end to the member 9 of the first slide, and the third spring being;- connected at its upper end to the third slide 12. 'lhe springs tend to draw the slides downwardly until their lower ends abut against the lower portion of the frame 1. Display ton ue-s 15, preferably in the form of plates are provided, the tongues having one or more reduced depending; portions or extensions 16 which are flerible and connected to the third slide 12, to the parts 10 of the second slide, and to the parts 8 of the first slide, all as shown in Figure 6. Each slide has a tongue 16 which operates between two adjacent panels 3 of the frame 1, as indicated in Figure The display tongues carry pictorial elements 17 duplicating those portions of the picture 4; which are supposed to have movement, and the relation between the pictorial elements 17 of the tongues on the slides, and the corresponding parts in the picture l, is such that when the slides are reciprocated, as and by the mechanism hereinafter described, parts of the picture 41: will appear to move. The slides may be operated in any desired wa if considered expedient, they may be supplied with shoulders or abutmcuts 18 adapted to cooperate with cams 10 on a. shaft 20, the cams being set with respect to each other so as to produce the necessary relative diilcreutial movement between the slides in timed relation. The shaft 20 may be driven by a pulley 21, or in any other desired way. and is journaled in bearings 22 on the guide bars 6.

In view of the foregoing description, the operation of the device may be dealt with briefly, it being understood that when the 

